Desert Quote by Thomas Merton Download Open image “The problem today is that there are no deserts, only dude ranches.” — Thomas Merton ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Desert Problem Today
The desert is so vast that no one can know it all. Men go out into the desert, and they are like ships at… — J.M.G. Le Clézio Copy Share Image
How are we to live with the desert, in the desert, within the desert? — Magnus Larsson Copy Share Image
Some people still have causes they will not desert, even though the cause seems lost. — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
Only the desert has a fascination--to ride alone--in the sun in the forever unpossessed country--away from man. That is a great temptation. — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
the desert breeds reserve. It is so big that one's own plans and projects seem too little to be talked about. Also, there is… — Rosita Forbes Copy Share Image
“Let no one hope to find in contemplation an escape from conflict, from anguish or from doubt. On the contrary, the deep, inexpressible certitude… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
If nothing that can be seen can either be God or represent Him to us as He is, then to find God we must… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
It is almost impossible to overestimate the value of true humility and its power in the spiritual life. For the beginning of humility is… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
We are not perfectly free until we live in pure hope. For when our hope is pure, it no longer trusts exclusively in human… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The desire to kill is like the desire to attack another with an ingot of red -hot iron: I have to pick up the… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
To enter into the realm of contemplation one must in a certain sense die: but this death is in fact the entrance to a… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The mission of Christian humility in social life is not merely to edify, but to keep minds open to many alternatives. The rigidity of… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Peace cannot be built on exclusivism, absolutism, and intolerance. But neither can it be built on vague liberal slogans and pious programs gestated in… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
Things that are good are good, and if one is responding to that goodness one is in contact with a truth from which one… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
The logic of worldly success rests on a fallacy: the strange error that our perfection depends on the thoughts and opinions and applause of… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
“The wisdom of the flesh is a judgement that the ordinary ends of our natural appetites are the goods to which the whole of… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I have inside me the winds, the deserts, the oceans, the stars, and everything created in the universe. We were all made by the… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
Some people are like ants. Give them a warm day and a piece of ground and they start digging. There the similarity ends. Ants… — Hal Borland Copy Share Image
I do spend a lot of weekends on the road. I have to pace myself. It can be pretty busy, but I'm not out… — Gary Sinise Copy Share Image
“The cactus thrives in the desert while the fern thrives in the wetland. The fool will try to plant them in the same flowerbox.… — Vera Nazarian Copy Share Image
I am sympathetic to developing countries’ concerns: because of our emissions it’s their crops that will disappear; because of our inaction, it’s their fields… — John F. Kerry Copy Share Image
Use every man according to his desert and who should 'scape whipping? Use them after your own honor and dignity, the less they deserve… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Who’s to say that it takes something like a drug to mess with your perception of reality? How did Hitler deceive a nation? How… — Ted Dekker Copy Share Image
God hath work to do in this world; and to desert it because of its difficulties and entanglements, is to cast off His authority.… — John Owen Copy Share Image
“The Estate of Solemnity By right, it reigns in its places- in long beards Of spanish moss hanging from a live oak On a… — Pattiann Rogers Copy Share Image
The earth itself assures us it is a living entity. Deep below surface one can hear its slow pulse, feel its vibrant rhythm. The… — Frank Waters Copy Share Image
